ORGANIZER: Baden Prince
CONTACT: badenprincejnr@hotmail.co.uk
DESCRIPTION: 100TPC London Event: “Wandering Bards
Come and be part of this worldwide event, “100,00 Poets for Change” on Saturday 24 September 2011.
The brainchild of American poet and community activist, Michael Rothenberg, this event aims to unite poets across the world in a day of positive action for change. Check out the website: www.bigbridge.org/100thousandpoetsforchange
In support of this momentous event, Naomi Woddis and Baden Prince have joined forces to create “Wandering Bards,” a moving feast that will arrive at 3 of London’s open-air markets at 12 mid-day, 2 and 4 PM on the day, culminating in an evening of poetry and spoken word at Cottons Restaurant & Bar in Clerkenwell starting at 6.30.
The venues are Brixton Market (meeting point: Brixton Tube) @ 12;
Brick Lane (meeting point, Aldgate East tube – Whitechapel Gallery exit) @ 2; and Camden Lock (meeting point, Camden Tube) @ 4.
Come along and join in. Everyone is welcome, whether you want to take the full tour, drop in (and out) at one of the daytime venues, or come down to Cottons in the evening: 70 Exmouth Market, Clerkenwell EC4R 4QP. We’ll be poetting there from 6:30 – 9 o’clock, after which it’s just hanging out, listening to the live band, and general
liming.
Please reply to Baden asap, indicating your preference. I’ll try to accommodate everyone’s wishes as far as possible:
e badenprincejnr@hotmail.co.uk
m 07946 776 952
Sample poem by Ali Abdolrezaei,
Translator: Abol Froushan
Sparrows
After a Thousand and One Nights
reading
sleeping
a couple leave the house
]Sparrows
swarm the alley
with their twitter
up to the bus stop
by the tree – swarmed
by tweet in tweet
On the cheek
spot on a beauty spot
the man
lands a kiss
To hide a show of tears
the woman
suddenly turns her head
blots out the blackening tears
off her cheeks
and turns back
to find no more sparrows
on the branches
Sample poem by Abol Froushan
Make some tea
In order to settle my appetite
I’ll have the chocolate chip
In order to palate the cookie
I’ll need to make some tea
In order to have the tea
I’ll put the kettle on
and wait for the cooker to do its job
In order to have the tea
I’ll need to clear the teapot
In order to bin the teabag
I need a lined bag
In order to line the bin
I’ll use a plastic bag
In order to bin the bag
I need to move the door the bin’s behind
I don’t want it to shut
So get carried further and further
Away from settling my appetite
I bin the soggy bags
Drain the dregs
Throw in the teabag
And out the kettle
The boiling water
Then I am struck
by this!
A karmic chain
That enfolds
And unrolls my thought
While the tea like the universe
Is going cold
Now the water’s boiled
Like the big bang
After a waiting
Now , I am as far from the original chocolate chip cookie
As the original Adam.
Two poems by Baden Prince read at 100 Thousand Poets for Change at the Cottons in London
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Baden Prince, Abol Froushan, Ali Abdolrezaei, Elizabeth Faitarone and Cath Drake got together at Cottons in Islington, London to perform a round of poetry readings to a congenial audience.
It was an enjoyable evening all round, with a couple of pleasant surprises thrown in: we appreciate the respect shown to us by the diners, and the fact that the guy from Liverpool felt moved to read after a gap of 20 years…